Team Work

Summer is getting to me. I have been battling with my kids to get along and follow rules this week so last night while I was planning out my to do list for the following day it hit me that I need to take a day and give it to the kids. I wanted to ignore this because next week we are giving 3 days to the kids(six flags, water park and dallas aquarium) but it came over me so strongly that I felt I should not ignore this.

So I was woke up first by Zoe needing to go potty. They kids slowly and one by one came down stairs for what they thought was going to be a normal unhappy day around here.

My instructions
1. Eat breakfast
2. Get ready for the day
3. Full participation by every body
4. Follow rules
5. Have fun
6. No tv and video games and I will only use the computer for resources as we need them

I put together 6 activities while the kids got ready for the day. KC and Joshlynn refused to take showers this morning so Scott helped me to be a little tough on them and we gave them cold water a bar of soap and shampoo and the backyard while I took the younger girls(whom got ready on there own)for a nice morning walk and chat with the neighbors.

When we returned KC and Joshlynn were ready to participate.

I put the six activities on paper and then put them in a hat for drawing.
The person that followed all the rules got to draw from the hat.

In our activities there was a lesson for the kids. the lessons weren't really pointed out but I made sure they were learned. There was lots of reading instructions for KC to finish his reading for six flags and lots of team work. If anyone misbehaved they had to sit on the couch or go to their room.

Lego Land with KC's lego collection

Lesson Sharing






Musical chairs
Lesson winning and losing with a good attitude



Obstacle Course (no pictures I participated)
lesson following instructions

Dance party
lesson Taking turns and not everybody likes the same thing

Pioneer Treasure hunt
lesson Pioneers for Pioneer Day








Exercise(no pictures I participated)
We did calming exercises since all the activities took up the energy and we needed to unwind for naps
lesson how we can relax after intense activity or when we can't control our emotions.

This all made for a great first half of the day and the younger ones were worn out and fell asleep in no time for nap time.